Overt Object Movement & Internal Structure of vP in English

• 영문명: Overt Object Movement & Internal Structure of vP in English
• 발행기관: 한국영어교육연구학회
• 저자명: Han-gyoo Khym
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교육연구』제44호, 63~84쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.11.30

영문 초록

The minimalist program (Chomsky (1993, 1994, 1995), Chomsky and Lasnik (1993)) does not allow any overt operation of verbs and objects before Spell‐Out in languages like English. It is because covert movement at LF is more economical. However, there are interesting English data that avoid explanation by the covert verb/object movement approach. They are the cases of backward binding only observed in the dative construction, but not in the double object construction. This contrast is not well explained by Larson (1988) or Chomsky (1993). Fujita (1996)’s wellconstructed theory has theoretical weaknesses in its explanation as well. To explain the contrast between double object construction and dative construction, I assume an alternate Thematic hierarchy with Non‐Themes in the Spec of the second‐highest VP (Johnson (1991), Koizumi (1993), Lasnik (1997), and Stroik (1996)). In addition, I suggest a proliferated VP‐Shell structure which has maximally two functional maximal projections between vP1 and VP2. Under this framework I argue that in English all verbs and objects move overtly to have the actual surface word order(refer to Taguchi (2008) and Harley & Noyer (1997) among others for varied argumentation on different reasons for overt verb and object shift before Spell-Out). The binding theory as a global principle monitoring entire derivation from D1 to DN will be discussed.

목차

I. Introduction

II. VP‐Shell Structure and Thematic Hierarchies

Ⅲ. Proliferated vP Structure and Overt Object Movement

IV. Conclusion

Works Cited

키워드

overt/covert verb/object movement the minimalist program backward binding dative construction